{"id":42664,"date":"2025-08-18T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42664"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:01:34","slug":"trump-megadonor-believes-this-clean-electricity-generation-hack-should-be-used-for-bitcoin-mining-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42664","title":{"rendered":"Trump Megadonor  Believes This Clean Electricity Generation Hack Should Be Used For Bitcoin Mining \u2014 Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Cameron Winklevoss<\/strong>, co-founder of the <strong>Gemini<\/strong> crypto exchange, floated an unconventional idea for sustainable Bitcoin (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) mining on Monday, which is to route electricity from piezoelectric floor tiles into the network.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cameron Winklevoss Thinks Footsteps Could Power Bitcoin Mining<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;This energy should be converted into Bitcoin mining. Every step helps audit and secure the blockchain. And eventually one step will win the block reward,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This energy should be converted into bitcoin mining. Every step helps audit and secure the blockchain. And eventually one step will win the block reward. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WU0QVjmdhr\">https:\/\/t.co\/WU0QVjmdhr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameron\/status\/1957227595612803228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He argued that turning footsteps into hashes would, in theory, help validate transactions and secure the network. The Bitcoin protocol pays miners a block reward for successfully adding new blocks to the chain under its proof-of-work system.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can Piezoelectric Floors Practically Power Bitcoin &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47178047\/trump-megadonor-believes-this-clean-electricity-generation-hack-should-be-used-for-bitcoin-\" alt=\"Trump\" megadonor believes this clean electricity generation hack should be used for bitcoin mining here why>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, floated an unconventional idea for sustainable Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining on Monday, which is to route electricity from piezoelectric floor tiles into the network. Cameron Winklevoss Thinks Footsteps Could Power Bitcoin Mining &#8220;This energy should be converted into Bitcoin mining. Every step helps audit and secure the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-42664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}